I guess that we'll have to come up with a way of having these workers have some kind of income. Otherwise, who's going to buy all those robot made products?
Who here is trying to spread Christianity and "Civilisation"?
If we have the power to help somebody in another country (without, say, bankrupting ourselves or causing some other harm), why don't we have a moral responsibility to do it?
Certainly we can disagree on what realistically and specifically should be done, but can agree that, in principle, humans are obligated to help other humans?
Are you suggesting that impoverished people from developing countries who have just lost their jobs to automation are going to embark on an international journey in order to storm my house and take my stuff?
How did you come up with this far-fetched fantasy?
The people from developing countries who could afford to do that come from a more privileged background than I do.
Migration is not cheap.
> Are you suggesting that impoverished people from developing countries who have just lost their jobs to automation are going to embark on an international journey in order to storm my house and take my stuff?
Um, yes, exactly (modulo "to automation")?
Just how many migrants arrived in Germany last year? Do you suggest they are all somehow "privileged"? And that's just the beginning!
You (probably) live in a place which is geographically hard to migrate to, as you'd basically need to cross the ocean to do so[1]. On the other hand, and on the other side of the pond, we've seen hundreds of thousands of people come here on foot or on boats that I'm amazed even kept afloat as long as they did.
It may look far-fetched to you, but it's already happening. It will get to you sooner or later.
Disclaimer: I'm not against migrants or anything (virtue signaling!), but I feel bad that our policies were among the causes which made them migrate in the first place. I think that such policies were developed by people with a mindset similar to yours: whatever happens there it's not here, so whatever. It is not so. Whatever happens anywhere will, sooner or later, come here and sit on your lawn.
[1] And even then there are people who view migration as a major, significant problem - some of them are even in positions of power.